fleet
fleet1
noun
fleet2
adjective
fleetly
adverb
fleetness
noun
语源
fleet3
noun
fleet4
(dialect)(方)
adjective
fleet5
verb
noun
- a group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership
舰队，船队
the small port supports a fishing fleet.
一支捕鱼船队以此小港为母港。
a fleet of battleships.
战列舰舰队。
■(the fleet)a country's navy
（某国）海军
the US fleet.
美国海军。
■a number of vehicles or aircraft operating together or under the same ownership
（共同行动或所有权人相同的）车队（或机群）
a fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospital.
救护车队把伤员送往医院。
- Old English flēot 'ship, shipping', from flēotan 'float, swim' (see fleet)
fleet2
adjective
- (chiefly poetic/literary)fast and nimble in movement
(主诗/文)快速的，敏捷的
a man of advancing years, but fleet of foot.
上了年纪但步伐矫捷的老者。
fleetly
adverb
fleetness
noun
语源
- early 16th cent.: probably from Old Norse fljótr, of Germanic origin and related to fleet
fleet3
noun
- (dialect)a marshland creek, channel, or ditch
(方)（沼泽地）小河；小湾；水道；沟
- Old English flēot, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vliet, also to fleet
fleet4
(dialect)(方)
adjective
- (of water) shallow
（水）浅的
- at or to a small depth
浅，不深地
- early 17th cent.: perhaps based on an Old English cognate of Dutch vloot 'shallow' and related to fleet
fleet5
verb
- [no obj.](poetic/literary)move or pass quickly
(诗/文)疾驰，飞逝，掠过
a variety of expressions fleeted across his face.
他脸上飞快闪过各种表情。
time may fleet and youth may fade.
光阴能飞逝，青春会消失。
■[with obj.]pass (time) rapidly
使（时间）飞快地过去
■fade away; be transitory
消失；转瞬即逝
the cares of boyhood fleet away.
少年时代的忧虑飞快消失。
- Old English flēotan 'float, swim', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlieten and German fliessen, also to flit and float
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